Welcome Young Man
At the Hanna
Rovina Children's
H o m e, founded
by Moatzot Ha-
poalot, Women's
Council of the
H istad rut, scores
of boys and girls
are given proper
care while their
mothers are at
work. Young ref-
ugees are among
A- he main clientele
'of this modern
o m e, which is
one of a network
:throughout Israel.
Jest For Fun
Miracles: A Cabinet Minister
One world: A Roman Emperor
of Israel was complaining to Dr. once said to Rabbi Tanhum:
Weizmann about the housing "We should have one world. • It's
bad to have so many different
Yemenites are cheaper. There shortage.
"What's going to happen to religions. Let us unite and have
is great inflation at present in
Israel and the story is told of us," he sighed. "We simply can't one religion."
a Jew who went into a Tel Aviv provide housing for all the im-
Rabbi Tanhum was enthusias-
store to buy a pair of suspend- . migrants. We may have to close tic about the idea. "That is the
our
doors
to
immigrants.
It
may
ers.
Jewish dream of the ages," he
The merchant displayed the be that after having won the said. "If we were all of one re-
war, we shall find that we will ligion, then there would be
suspenders.
be defeated in peace by our in- peace in the world. We would
"How much?"
ability to provide housing. Let's all be brethren, but Your Ma-
"A dollar."
"A dollar for a pair of sus- look at this thing realistically, jesty, Jews are already cir-
penders," said the Jew. "That's Dr. Weizmann."
cumcized, so we cannot turn
too much. Why, I can get two
"That's right," replied Dr. heathen, but you heathen can
Yemenite Jews to hold up my Weizmann. "Let's look at it real- become circumcised, so why
pants for 20 cents."
istically. Today you can only De don't all of you become Jews.
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a realist if you believe in mir-
Too much effort. Goldstein acles."
THE JEWISH NEWS-23
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was a very good-hearted fellow,
Friday,
September 23, 1949
RABBI'S
RETORT:
but he was about as lazy as they
A
Jew
who
was
an
unbeliver
make them. -One day a beggar
came along and asked Goldstein was walking along the avenue
By EDWARD M. M. WARBURG
with his dog when he met the
for 20 cents for a malted.
Chairman, Joint Distribution Committee
Sincere Best Wishes
"Sure," said Goldstein, "stick rabbi.
Being an arrogant unbeliever,
Just a few days ago a plane settled down at Lydda Airport. your hand in my pocket and
to All Our Friends
he thought he would "rub it in"
It slowed to a stop, and as its door opened, a mass of faces peered 'take the money."
on
the
rabbi.
"Hello,
rabbi,"
he
and Customers . . .
out at a braVe new world. They were Yemenite Jews, and they
"Oh, no," said the beggar, "not said, "this is my kaddish," point-
had come at last to the safety of Israel.
me. I want you to know that I ing," to the dog.
for a Year of Health-
At almost the same moment, a ship from Marseille dropped am as lazy as you."
"Well," remarked the rabbi, "I
and Happiness
anchor in the harbor of Haifa. Men, women and children crowded
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think you will leave, when you
the rails. As they looked at the
Aloof
Colonels
die, a better kaddish than your
bustling activities of the harbor, grants was the new state, al-
There has been a lot written father did."
new homes also meant
a mantle of dignity seemed to though
• • *
the United States, Canada, Latin about the camaraderie and dem-
fall on their shoulders.
A Choni story: They tell a
America and Australia. Shortly ocracy in the Israeli Army, but
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These were people who had after Rosh Hashanah 5709, JDC a friend writes in to say that story about Choni. Once a rich
Cor. Gladstone
come from the Disabled Persons began to move an average of this is all balder-dash. He asks, manufacturer called him over
camps of Germany, and before 20,000 emigrants per month to did you notice that the colonels and presented him with a suit
that from Nazi concentration the Jewish State by ship and in the Israeli army are called of clothes.
"Aloof?"
Choni leisurely examined the
camps, from the Warsaw Ghet- plane.
You see, he says, how can you suit and the clothing manufac-
to, from guerilla bands, from
These emigrants came from
forest caves and hideouts.
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countries in the Moslem world, expect a colonel to associate turer looked on, expecting Choni
at Shaefer
Yemenites and DPs — both as well as Europe. For outside with a private, if the word for to beam with gratitude.
Finally Choni said, "Where is
groups were among the 230,000 of Europe, there were thousands colonel in Hebrew is "aloof?"
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the 'extra pair of pants?"
Jewish survivors brooght to Is- who also could no longer stay
Little,
but
oh
my!
rael with the aid of the Joint in the lands of their birth: Jews
Again, I see a new crop of
Distribution Committee in the of the .Near East, threatened by
Jewish year 5709—the first full Arab terror, called upon JDC for those stories revolving about the
year following the establishment aid, and JDC answered. Over smallness of the state of Israel.
The latest is of the Israeli who
of a Jewish state. This, the Arab-held lands, JDC's "Opera-
greatest entry into Israel since tion Magic Carpet" moved 7,000 asks a newcomer what he plan-
New Arrivals
Biblical times, marks a new and Yemenite and Adenite JeWs to ned to do" the following day.
for
"I
think
I
shall
go
on
tour
of
dramatic peak of achievement Israel, from Aden City on the
in the nearly 35 years of relief Red Sea, 1,600 airmiles to the Israel."
Fall and the
"And what will you do in the
and reco4struction activities of South.
Holidays
afternoon?"
is
the
rejoinder.
the JDC.
In the 12-month period fol-
The old joke on the same idea
Since its formation in No- lowing the establishment of the was about the orthodox Jew who
vember, 1914—JDC's appropria- new state JDC-assisted emigra- f o u n d Palestine objectionable
tions for its manifold activities, tion to Israel included 83,000 because there was only place
its resettlement efforts which from the DP countries of Germ- "aus zu gehn shmona esray."
have b e n e f i t t e d hundreds of any, Austria and Italy, 55,000
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thousands, its relief and recon- from Eastern European coun-
Like
the
Rest: Everybody
tries,
and
29,000
from
North
struction programs which have
aided millions — have totaled Africa and other non-European asks these days of everyone re-
countries. In V-E Day, turning from a visit to Israel to
more than $400,000,000.
JDC
has helped 314,000 people tell him about the new state.
In the more than four years
Which reminds us of an inci-
since V-E Day, the JDC has had leave Europe, Most of them for dent of a few years back. Old
the privilege of helping to bring Israel.
Mr. Goldfarb had gone • to Pal-
about one of the miracles of our
estine for a visit and upon re-
TYLED in rich color tones with the smart lines
time—the revival of a remnant Jewish Red Groups
turning, his friend Abe asked
of a people left so weakened and Decline in Argentina
that have made DISRAEL hats the choice of
him: "Well, what did you think
shattered that restoration seem-
of the Wailing Wall?"
fashion
- conscious men for over 15 years. All brim
ed almost impossible.
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—A de-
"What did I think of the
widths
in
Beaver Blends—Suedes—or Smooth Finishes.
When World War II ended, the cline of membership in pro- Wailing Wall?" he mimicked. "It
1,500,000 surviving Jews of Eu- Communist Jewish groups here is like all Wailing Walls."
rope had lost homes, families, has _become noticeable following
possessions. But under the rags their launching of a separate
and tatters, deep in the pain- fund-raising drive in competi-
Best Wishes for a Happy and
wracked bodies, their flickered a tion with the United .Jewish
small bright dream of .a new Campaign, which is supported
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beginning. The dream began to by all other elements in the
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unfold when JDC's relief work-
The pro - Communist groups
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in the wake of the Allied armies, have not succeeded so far in
when the surviving Jews receiv- securing any substantial contri-
ed food and. clothing through butions for their campaign. The
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once more took on meaning for
them. They wanted to live, to Central Location Index, set up
rebuild, but they were penni- in 1944 as a central clearing
less, economically helpless. Once house, for Jewish and non-Jew-
more in their need they turned ish- displaced persons seeking
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Approximate-
To help Jewish survivors
achieve self-support, JDC helped ly 50,000 locations were made by
ed establish 263 producers' co- the Index since its inception,
operatives, numerous credit co- the agency's final report de-
operatives, loan societies, a sub- clared. Of these, 40,000 survived
stantial number of workshops, the war while the remaining
and supported the vocational 10,000 were victims of the Nazis.
training schools of the ORT.
Men and women were helped
to return to useful livelihoods,
LESHONO TOVO
to work with metals and wood,
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to use sewing machines and tur-
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ret _lathes. Thousands of heads
of families were assisted to em-
ployment and self-support.
JULIUS BERKOWITZ
Nor is the program completed,
even now. At this moment
and FAMILY
some 90,000 persons are bene-
fiting by JDC's various measures
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